Hard Drive: Western Digital 320GB Internal SATA HD
RAM: Corsair XMS2 DDR2 Memory 4GB (2 2gb Cards)
Disc Drives: 2x Superwritemaster DVD RW Drives
Power Supply: Coolmaster Real Power Pro 750w Supply
The issue me and my friend are having when building this is as follow. We currently have everything installed into the case, and have attempted to boot up the PC. The Post code shows FF (meaning boot) and we have it hooked up to my 32" Sharp Aquos v.i.a S-Video. We get to the boot up screen which is blue, and the pc, either then or before that, shuts itself down for no reason. We replaced the power supply already so we know it is not faulty.
Start by removing everything not needed for initial bootup sequence. no drives, no cards etc.. just the main board, RAM, CPU, and video card.
see if it boots with those. If it does, add one item back at a time till you find the culprit. If it does not boot at that point it is most likely bad RAM, a bad video card, or more likely the mainboard's BIOS settings or a bad board.
If you are trying to overclock, don't try till you have an OS securely installed. overclocking really screws with a number of operating systems during initial install, but they work fine with OCing after installation.
never mind glass wolf, we were stupid and forgot to add silver thermal compound to the top of the processor and bottom of our heatsink.... thus the processor was telling the comp to shut down..... its up and running
Wow. That processor will never be the same. Thank god the thing is still working now, thermal paste or a thermal pad is the most important thing in your cooling. Without it a heatsink does almost nothing.
they are nice cards. I'm using two 9800GTX cards in SLI on this box, with the HDMI audio cable connected to the audio chipset's optical output, so I can use my DVI to HDMI adapter and run an HDMI cable for A/V to my AV receiver.. it's pretty nice.
